PANJIM: A Division bench of the Bombay High Court at Goa comprising of Justice S. A. Bobde and Justice F.M.Reis today adjourned to 6th July the petition filed by Goa’s Raj Bhavan against the Right to Information Act.
When the matter came up for hearing today Advocate General Subodh Kantak sought that the matter be adjourned as the Solicitor General of India Mr. Gopal Subramaniam would be arguing the matter on behalf the Governor of Goa.
The court made it clear that the matter would have to go on July 6th regardless of whether Mr. Gopal Subramaniam was able to come or not.
Adv. Rodrigues today submitted to the Court that the matter was urgent as Goa Governor Dr. S.S. Sidhu was the only Governor not complying with the provisions of the Right to Information Act.
Adv. Rodrigues also told the Court that the information sought by him from Raj Bhavan was required by him in the defamation case filed by Advocate General Subodh Kantak against him.
The petition filed by Goa Governor Dr. S.S.Sidhu’s Special Secretary Dr. N. Radhakrishnan challenges the 31st March order of the Goa State Information Commission which had directed the Raj Bhavan to furnish Adv. Aires Rodrigues the information sought by him under the Right to Information Act.
The State Chief Information Commissioner Mr. Motilal Keny in his order had ruled that the Goa Governor was a “Public Authority” and does come within the ambit of the Right to Information Act.
Adv. Aires Rodrigues’s complaint against Goa Governor Dr. Sidhu follows the stand taken by the Goa Raj Bhavan that the Governor was not a public authority and did not come within the purview of the RTI Act.
Adv. Rodrigues had sought from Goa Raj Bhavan under the RTI Act details of action taken on the complaints made by him to the Governor of Goa against Advocate General of Goa Mr. Subodh Kantak. Adv. Rodrigues had also sought copies of noting sheets and correspondence pertaining to the processing of his complaints against the Advocate General of Goa.
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